Some would say I never get enough sleep, but I would say I'm like a Lord of the Rings sleep wizard in that I never sleep too little or too late- I get precisely the amount of sleep I meant to get.

I have a sneaky suspicion that not enough people are excited about Once Upon a Katamari coming out in just 10 days. I know it's not in a battlefield and it doesn't involve a lot of bugs dying over and over at a boss, but the whole series is a blast and I'd like it not to fade into obscurity again.

Everyone: The Koopalings are better, and will always be better, than Bowser Jr. Nintendo: The best we can do is more Bowser Jr. forever.

I'm all for fun, tough bosses. But I am a little tired of bosses where I have to study every piece of armor and equippable ability or go online to learn about special "builds." I'm as big a fan as anyone of Expedition 33 but I hope these new "late game" bosses aren't just more Simons.

Yeah yeah I know I shouldn't drop F-bombs around my kid. But come on, I had 4 decades of using that before the kid showed up. That shit's locked in.

I hear a lot of people claiming the console wars are over. Just don't tell Trump or he'll take credit for ending another war.

It's great how some developers are like "A lot of people love games but have a lot of responsibilities and very limited time to play... well fuck those guys let's cater to the "git gud" crowd!"

Can you really call yourself a retro gamer if you aren't mentally trying to process how the May 1995 issue of EGM pitted Toughman Boxing vs Super Punch Out and they gave Toughman Boxing the win?

People got this Gamepass price hike all wrong. See, at $30, that adds up $360 a year. As in XBOX 360! So the year after they will lower the price to $1 a year for the XBOX ONE!

Me: Okay cup of coffee, wake me up. Coffee: Best I can do is make 3 cups of pee.

Being a parent: - Makes plans to go somewhere fun - Kid is excited to do fun thing - Kid has a lot of fun doin fun thing - Kid fusses and fights every step to get ready to do fun thing It is very difficult to explain how draining that process is.

People need to calm down and stop expecting a prime-years E3 from every video a company releases. They are here to tell us what's coming out and that's what they do.

After loving the Loco Roco level in Astro Bot, my kid asked if we could try the Loco Roco game on the PS5. We downloaded it, and I have to say it has possibly the worst controls in a game that I have played in decades. It was probably better on the PSP, but the didn't calibrate it for the PS5.

Internet rule #345: Don't tell people their opinions are wrong. Everyone can have an opinion! Instead, say something is over or under rated! That way nobody will notice you saying their opinions are dumb.

I love when someone says they're leaving social media and asks their followers/friends to reach out if they want to stay in touch. How about YOU reach out to those YOU want to still keep in touch with.

Top 10 Metroidvanias, here I go! 1. CV: SOTN 2. Super Metroid ... and 8 others I don't know.

Delivery Status: Arriving today. But if not, than 34 days from now.

I know $70 is a lot for two old games, but I want developers to know the reason I'm buying Galaxy 1 and 2 despite the high price tag is the assist mode. At least, that puts it over the top. Thanks to limited time to play and having a kid that likes playing, accessibility is important to me.

I can't be the only one that thinks the DK Bananza exp looks just like the end game content Odyssey offered, right? There's a lot of Nintendo naysayers out there bitching about NIntendo being greedy, and stuff like this makes it hard not to agree with them.

There seems to be two kinds of people: 1) Sees a free day on the calendar and looks forward to relaxing and doing whatever. 2) Sees a free day on the calendar and absolutely HAS to find a way to fill it. Somehow these two kinds of people always date and get married.

Mario Galaxy Collection, the Galaxy movie, new Yoshi game, and a release date for Metroid is all pretty exciting to me.

It's Final Fantasy VIII's birthday and I know it's divisive but I'm on the side of it being amazing and I think it aged pretty well. Hate it or not, gotta recognize the amazing soundtrack. I also love that Squall is one of the only true introverted main characters.

New hot take- it's okay to judge a game negatively based on it being too difficult. Back in the day we said that all the time, but somewhere along the line it seemed like if you said difficulty was a negative factor, the internet would attack you. It's not always about skill either...

In reality, I'm not going to tell my kid this is Expedition 33, but for the sake of this post, I'm going to tell my kid this is Expedition 33.

Finally played Blasphemous. Love Metroidvanias but wasn't sure about infusing Dark Souls into the genre. Well, it was good. Exploration is encouraged and I appreciate that. Some of the music was good to, and the visuals were solid. As for the negatives...

I know most people feel like they're the main character in their lives, but I'm starting to wonder about myself. My daily plot arcs are stuff like "gets mad at a late delivery", "has to call dentist", "drinks too much coffee", "rolls eyes at political stuff", etc. Total B or C plotline stuff.

I loved Astro Bot, as did my daughter. While I can't really complain about free speedrun updates, I'd really rather they focus on new, full levels for paid DLC. Or defy modern gaming and make a timely sequel that's not a live service shooter.

Here's a Nintendo take: get better at storytelling, or hire voice actors. Astro almost never needed text to tell its story, while DK Bananza has an encyclopedia of text. If you need fractones to explain everything 5 times over on every level, then get some voice actors.

There are a lot of takes about Sonic games, so here's another. Sega really squanders all the character appeal they have. Sure, racing and olympic games and some phone games let you play as a big variety of characters, but most mainline games just give you Sonic, and SOMETIMES a couple others.

A new comic. That's 3 this year. I'm amazing.

When old people (like me and older) say stuff like "back in my day playgrounds were metal on concrete- kids are too soft now" tells me they really don't know kids. None of that matters- you can give a kid a zipperless pillow and they can somehow cut an arm off and pop an eye out with it.

Got the new Mondo Peter Venkman and I think we can say he's an improvement from the original figure.

In gaming for me there is no better dopamine hit than getting a new ability in a Metroidvania that you know let's you go back and finally access a bunch of places you couldn't before.

Hardest line in cinema?

90s gaming moved at such a fast paced game magazine editors would say "Back in the day this game was great, but times have changed" and the would be referring to a game a year and a half old. Now companies want us playing the same subscriptions based game for over a decade.

I know some people might argue but I'm just gonna say it- Andy had a pretty crap collection of toys.

Is there actually houses or apartments that companies like UPS, FedEx, DHL or whatever actually bring packages early or just in the morning? As far as I can tell they don't start delivering packages until around 1 or 2 in the afternoon at the earliest.

For game optimization I think framerate before resolution or effects. When a game has a quality and performance mode on a console, which is mostly standard now, they aren't optimized properly if they don't run at 30 or 60 FPS. This shouldn't be too much to ask this many generations into 3d gaming.

I remember in Gamefan the creator of Bubsy was interviewed during the production of Bubsy 3D. They asked him what was next for Bubsy, and he said something like "Well Bubsy 3, Bubsy 3d. Bubsy 4... Bubsy 4D?" And here we are. Just took 30 years.

One side effect of the chaos horror timeline we live in is how online store shipping has gotten out of whack. When something says like 3-5 day shipping, they now mean that's after the warehouse actually ships it, carrier handoffs, and a day or two tip paid to Father Time.

Fun fact about 90s gaming: The company Aura brought out a vest with a speaker in it and called it Virtual Reality.

I beat DK Bananza this past week so I guess here is another comic.

Ranking the Expedition game series: 33- best of all of them. 10/10 13 and 24- don't play MMORPGs 1, 3, 5, 8, 25, and 30- 9/10 7- didn't have a Tiger Game.COM to play it 15, 17, 18, 21-24, 32- 8/10 The rest were all about a 7/10, which isn't bad, just not as great as the others.

I've seen people rank the Final Fantasy games and I would say FF4-10, and 12 and 16, all deserve a 10/10 to me. But because it just hit at the right time, FF6 remains my favorite. I think FF1-3, X2, FF15, and FF13 all deserve about an 8. FF Tactics gets a 9, but some QoL fixes could make it a 10.

With DK Bananza beaten, gotta rank the DK adventure games I've played. 1. DK Tropical Freeze- an under appreciated classic. 2. DKC2 3. DK Bananza 4. DKC 5. DKC Returns 6. DKC3 7. DK Land (GB) 8. DK64 Not hating DK64 but the over reliance on collecting made it feel more monotonous than the rest.

I've found this funny for over 30 years now. Why even play Red Dead Redemption when you have this?

I saw this tutorial and it reminded me of my own tutorial I made some years ago for anyone looking to draw arms.

I stopped making comics some years ago because of kids and work and such. But it's hot out, and since every game now had parry mechanics I doodled another comic.

Okay top 10 Genesis games: Flashback Kid Chameleon CV Bloodlines SoR2 Toejam & Earl Super SF2 Sonic 2 Phantasy Star 4 Rocket Knight Aladdin Wish I play Shining Force or Landstalker when I was a kid, but I didn't, so I don't have nostalgia for them but I recognize how good they are.

Every older youtuber that talks about Genesis/Mega Drive: -Shooters are great -What's Sonic?